Thanks for following up with a more complete description of
the TFSA transfer strategy — your readers definitely asked for more information.
Not exact matches
This brings up a number of very interesting issues and a couple of possible
strategies for
transferring TFSA money from one institution to another.
Assuming that withdrawals are not charged fees (or less fees than the
transfer) then someone could do this
strategy with the only problem being that they can't recontribute the money in the same calendar year unless they have enough unused
TFSA room which is not the situation in Kim's case.
Another
strategy to think about if you are looking at a steep
transfer fee is to just withdraw the
TFSA money from the existing account and then contribute it to the new
TFSA account.
There is an article about
TFSA Institution
Transfer Strategies at http://www.moneysmartsblog.com/
tfsa-institution-
transfer-
strategies/
Also, I used a similar
strategy to build my RRSP and
TFSA accounts —
transfer money from
TFSA to RRSP, then put back into
TFSA from tax return.
TD Waterhouse has started charging the
transfer fee if you do an all redemption from a
TFSA, so it seems that the brokerages have caught on to this
strategy.
CC's
strategy is a way to
transfer your
TFSA to a different institution without being charged a fee (many institutions charge a fee if you
transfer away from them).
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transfer fees, please read TFSA Institutional Transfer Str
transfer fees, please read
TFSA Institutional
Transfer Str
Transfer Strategies.